[QUOTE]Originally posted by Meat Shake
War has little to do with being a warrior.
Warrior n One who is engaged aggressively or energetically in an activity, cause, or conflict: EX: neighborhood warriors fighting against developers.
Cited from dictionary.com
Many dictionarys contain useage of the word including non standard English. In other words, how it is used even in the wrong sense.
The word conspire is a good example. You have to have someone else to conspire with so co- conspirator is rather silly. Why not just fellow consipirator?
Another example is to mispronounce words. A person's strong point is thier forte. Did you know the forte is the first 1/3 of a sword? It is the strongest part of a sword, its strong point. Forte' however, means to play loud. For the last twenty years or so some people have been saying forte' when they should have been saying forte (for tay when it should have been fort) when refering to someone's strong point. You will find it now listed with both pronuciations. Look it up in a older dictionary.
I suppose you could make the arguement about war as in the football game is going to be a real war next Sunday. Does this mean you are for wars now? Of course not.
A third example would be how the word it self changes completly. Tawdry used to mean the best. If I said your girlfriend was tawdry you would infer that she was cheap and if she is dating you....well let's leave it at that.